The  Wishing  Stone 


A  PLAY  FOR  JUNIORS 

by 

A.  M.  H.  Burrows 

Author  of 

Princess  Merry  Heart 


and  The  Light  Fairies 


SUGGESTIONS. 


1.  This  play  may  be  lengthened  by  the 
addition  of  more  games  at  the  parties,  and 
more  wishes  in  act  III.  Any  simple  hymn  in 
which  spiritual  gifts  are  asked  for  may  be 
used  as  a  wish. 

2.  The  scholarships  named  are  those  of 
the  Juniors  of  Western  New  York.  They 
may  be  omitted,  and  the  story  of  other  work 
substituted.  When  used,  each  scholarship 
may  be  illustrated  by  a  procession,  in  cos¬ 
tume,  from  the  school  mentioned,  passing 
slowly  across  the  front  of  the  stage  with 
music. 


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I 


1916 


The  Wishing  Stone 

By  ANGIE  M.  H.  BURROWS 


Characters 

Mother 

Miss  Grace 

Ellen 

Ruth 

Lizzie 

Edna 

Alice 

Susie 

Elsie 

Older  Sisters,  ■ — -Louise,  Rose  and  Esther. 

Fairy  Godmother 

Dream  Fairy 

Missionary  Nurse 

Missionary  Teacher 

Missionary  Deaconess 

Chinese  Girl 

Slaves  from  India 

Japanese  Girl 

Other  Girls  at  the  Parties. 

ACT  1. 

THE  BIRTHDAY  GIFT 

(Children  at  party,  finishing  their  ice¬ 
cream  and  cake.) 

LIZZIE: — I  think  this  has  been  a  perfect¬ 
ly  lovely  party. 

ELLEN:- — I’m  glad  you  like  it. 

EDNA: — I’m  going  to  have  a  party  when 
my  birthday  comes. 

RUTH:— When  does  it  come. 

EDNA: — The  thirtieth  of  Tune. 

ELSIE: — Are  you  going  to  have  ice¬ 
cream  at  your  party? 

EDNA: — Of  course.  And  mother  says  I 
can  have  three  kinds  of  cake  at  my 
party. 

CHILDREN:— Oh,  my! 

EDNA:- — And  I’m  going  to  have  more 
girls  at  my  party. 

ALICE: — Mother  says  I  can  have  a  party 
next  year.  I  can’t  have  ice-cream,  but  Fath¬ 
er  makes  sugar,  and  mother  says  we  can 
have  maple  sugar  on  snow. 

CHILDREN:— Oh,  how  nice! 

(Enter  Mother) 

MOTHER: — Was  the  ice-cream  good, 
children? 

CHILDREN:— Yes,  ma’am. 

RUTH: — The  best  I  ever  ate. 

SUSIE: — 1  never  had  any  sliced  ice¬ 
cream  before. 

LIZZIE:- — It’s  been  a  lovely  party. 
ELSIE: — The  party’s  all  over  now,  ’cause 
the  ice-cream’s  all  gone,  and  the  cake’s  all 
gone. 


OLDER  CHILDREN:— Sh— 

MOTHER: — No,  it  isn’t  quite  over.  El¬ 
len’s  fairy  Godmother  is  coming  to  bring 
her  a  gift. 

LIZZIE: — The  fairy  Godmother?  Oh, 
Mrs.  Mason,  may  we  stay  and  see  her? 

MOTHER: — Yes,  indeed. 

CHILDREN: — Oh,  goody! 

LIZZIE: — I  never  saw  a  fairy  Godmother. 

(Enter  Fairy  Godmother.  Children  Rise) 

F.  G.: — Well,  here’s  your  chance,  for  here 
she  is.  Where’s  my  girl  Ellen? 

ELLEN: — Here  I  am,  Godmother. 

F.  G.: — You’re  Ellen,  are  you?  Well,  El¬ 
len,  you’re  getting  to  be  a  pretty  big  girl, 
and  it’s  time  you  had  a  little  responsibility. 
So  I’ve  brought  you  a  little  present. 

(Takes  wishing-stone  From  Bag.) 

F:  G.:  — 

Take  this  stone  and  guard  it  well. 

All  it’s  value,  who  can  tell? 

Wish  and  touch  it,  each  of  you. 

Then  will  every  wish  come  true; 

But  what  you  wish  for,  give  good  heed, 
Or  sorry  you  will  be  indeed. 

You  who  to  happiness  aspire 

Must  start  your  lives  with  right  desire. 

ELLEN: — Oh,  Godmother!  Can  I  really 
have  anything  I  wish  for? 

F.  G.: — Anything  you  wish  for,  if  you 
touch  the  wishing-stone. 

ELLEN: — And  can  all  the  other  girls, 
too? 

F.  G.: — Anybody  who  touches  the  wish¬ 
ing-stone. 

ELLEN: — Thank  you,  dear  Godmother! 
(Kisses  her  hand  as  she  takes  the 
stone.)  And  you  will  see  what  perfectly 
lovely  things  we  shall  wish  for! 

F.  G.: — See  that  you  do!  See  that  you  do! 
Take  heed! 

(Exit  F.  G,  Children  gather  around  Ellen.) 

LIZZIE: — Oh,  Elien,  what  are  you  going 
to  wish  for? 

ELLEN:— 

I  wish  this  house  were  made  of  gold, 
And  full  of  gold  inside. 

Then  I  would  go  where  toys  are  sold, 
And  all  my  wants  provide. 

There’s  nothing  .nothing  in  the  world 
But  that  my  go’d  would  buy — 

French  dolls  with  real  hair  that’s  curled 
And  dolls  that  talk  and  cry, 

And  piles  and  piles  of  other  things; 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


And  people  would  bow  down 
And  say,  “That  little  Mason  girl’s 
The  richest  girl  in  town.” 

(Touches  Stone.) 

CHILDREN — Who’s  going  to  wish 
next? 

LIZZIE: — Oh,  please  let  me! 

I  want  a  party  every  day, 

With  lovely  things  to  eai, 

And  lots  and  lots  of  games  to  play, 
And  flowers  that  smell  so  sweet, 

And  lots  of  rooms  to  wander  through, 
And  nooks  for  hide-and-seek, 

And  fairy  stories  that  come  true 
And  last  a  whole  long  week. 

(Touches  Stone.) 

EDNA:- — May  I  wish  next? 

I  wish  for  dresses  of  silk  and  lace 
And  velvet  and  satin,  with  veils  for 

my  face, 

Gold  watches  and  bracelets  and  beads 

and  chains, 

And  silk  umbrellas  for  when  it  rains, 
And  pearls  and  diamonds  and  other 

bright  things 

To  set  in  my  watches  and  pins  and 

rings 

•  (Touches  Stone.) 

ALICE:  — 

I  want  a  voice  for  singing  so  sweet 

and  strong  and  high 
That  never  any  nightengale  can 

sing  as  well  as  I; 
Then  every  single  place  I  go  I  shall  be 

asked  to  sing, 

And  all  who  hear  will  clap  and  clap 

and  clap  like  anything 

(Touches  Stone.) 

RUTH:— 

Oh,  dear!  I’d  rather  be  a  poet,  writ¬ 
ing  things  for  books; 
And  everyone’d  admire  me  so.  I’d 

know  it  by  their  looks; 
And  how  I’d  love  to  see  in  print  the 

things  that  I  had  writ 
And  hear  the  people  talking  of  my 

wisdom  and  my  wit! 

Touches  Stone. 

SUSIE:  — 

I  wish  I  could  dance  like  a  fairy 
And  never  get  tired  at  all. 

I’d  dance  all  day,  like  the  sunshine, 

All  over  the  floor  and  wall; 

And  when  people  looked  and  wondered, 
I’d  dance  on  the  ceiling,  too, 

And  they  all  would  look  and  wonder 

again, 

And  wouldn’t  know  what  to  do. 

(Susie  touches  the  stone,  and  than  dances. 
Ellen,  Lizzie,  Ruth  and  Edna  sit  down  at 
the- back  of  the  stage  in  the  middle,  leaving 


space  behind  chairs  for  the  Dream  Fairy  to 
pass  around  later.) 

ELLEN:— 

It’s  your  turn  to  wish,  Elsie. 

ELSIE:  — 

What  shall  I  wish  for? 

ELLEN:— 

Whatever  you  want  most  of  all. 

ELSIE:  — 

I  want  a  little  pussy-cat, 

All  soft  and  warm  and  dear, 

So  tame  and  nice  and  cuddley 
That  I  can  hold  her  here. 

She’ll  have  some  pretty  yellow  eyes 
And  whiskers  very  long. 

And  she  will  sing  and  sing  to  me 
The  dearest  little  song. 

(Helds  arms  as  if  holding  pussy,  and  liuraj 
“The  song  of  the  pussy-cat.”  The  other  chil¬ 
dren  join  in,  drop,  one  or  two  at  a  time,  into 
the  tableau  with  the  four  sitting  girls  at  the 
back,  and  fall  asieep.  Enter  dream-fairy  with 
wand,  which  she  waves  over  the  sleeping 
children  as  she  passes  around  them,  saying: ) 

DREAM  FAIRY:  — 

Dream,  dream,  dream,  dream. 

Things  are  never  what  they  seem. 

Little  humans,  in  your  youth 
See  them  as  they  are  in  truth. 

Passing  pleasures  all  are  shallow — - 
Little  candles  made  of  tallow. 

Real  joys  are  like  the  sun, 

Shedding  light  on  everyone. 

Dream,  dream,  dream,  dream,  dream. 

(Curtain.) 

ACT  II. 

THE  DREAM. 

(The  children  dressed  as  old  ladies  in 
olack  or  grey  with  white  caps,  aprons  and 
spectacles,  sewing.) 

SUSIE: — Ah  me!  how  dreary  it  is  to  be 
old!  How  long  and  lonesome  the  days  are, 
and  nothing  pleasant  to  think  about! 

ALICE: — How  true!  T  have  been  thinking 
today  about  our  happy  childhood,  and  worn 
dering  why  we  are  all  so  unhappy  now.  I  was 
thinking  of  Ellen’s  birthday  narty,  and  her 
fairy  Godmother,  and  the  wislnng-stone.  Do 
you  remember? 

ELSIE: — I  remember!  1  was  offered  any¬ 
thing  I  wished  for,  and  I  wished  for  a  pus¬ 
sy-cat! 

■  LIZZIE:— It  wasn’t  a  very  wise  wish,  was 
it?  But  then,  you  were  not  very  big.  And 
what  didn’t  you  suffer  because  of  that  an¬ 
imal!  She  killed  your  canary,  and  she  caught 
all  the  gold  fish,  and  she  stole  the  cream. 
Finally  she  began  catching  the  neighbors’ 
chickens,  and  then  she  herself  came  to  a  sad 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


end.  I  remember  we  had  thirteen  funerals 
under  the  grape-vine  because  of  that 
cat. 

RUTH: — Yes,  my  dear,  even  you  made  a 
wiser  choice  than  Elsie  did. 

LIZZIE: — I!  Why,  I  could  think  of  nothing 
better  to  wish  for  than  parties:  And  how  I 
enjoyed  them  for  the  first  few  days!  Then 
I  began  to  get  tired,  but  they  never  stopped. 
Then  I  grew  cross  and  naughty,  and  had  to 
be  punished,  and  cried  myself  to  sleep  every 
night.  Then  my  eyes  were  so  red  and  swollen 
that  I  locked  like  a  fright;  and  I  grew  so 
tired  of  games  that  I  wouldn’t  play,  and  no¬ 
body  liked  me.  Then  eating  so  many  good 
things  made  me  sick,  and  I  was  very  unhap¬ 
py.  Finally  I  borrowed  Ellen’s  stone  and 
wished  never  to  go  to  a  party  again  as  long 
as  I  live;  and  it  was  a  far  better  wish  then 
the  first  one! 

SUSIE: — And  1  wanted  to  do  nothing  but 
dance!  Well  I  did  dance  and  dance  and 
dance.  But  new'  1  have  rheumatism  and  can’t 
dance  any  more,  and  all  I  can  do  is  to  sit  and 
wonder  when  dinner  will  be  ready.  But  Alice 
chese  wisely. 

ALICE: — A  voice — to  be  used  in  showing 
off?  Of  course,  it  would  not  have  been  so  bad 
if  I  had  used  it  differently. 

RUTH: — I  knew  what  you  mean,  for  I 
made  the  same  mistake.  I  chose  a  good  gift, 
but  I  used  it  just  to  make  myself  famous,  and 
it  was  a  failure.  Edna,  at  least,  had  some¬ 
thing  to  show  for  her  wish.  She  used  to 
look  lovely  in  her  pretty  clothes. 

EDNA: — Did  I?  Well,  I  wasn't  lovely.  I 
didn’t  love  a  single  person  except  myself,  nor 
a  single  thing  except  my  cloches.  And  as  I 
grew  older,  they  didn’t  even  make  me  look 
lovely.  I  stopped  wearing  them  because  my 
own  little  grand  daughter  asked  me  if  I  did- 
n  t  think  I  would  look  more  grandmoth- 
ery  if  I  didn’t  wear  so  many  shiny  things! 
Dear  child!  If  I  had  only  made  Ellen’s  wish 
I  would  have  been  able  to  give  her  more  ad¬ 
vantages. 

ELLEN: — A  wish  for  gold?  Don’t  think  it! 

I  thought  gold  would  buy  anything  in  the 
world,  and  it  has  never  bought  me  anything 
of  value.  It  made  me  worldly,  and  it  made  my 
children  vain  and  ever-bearing  and  extrav¬ 
agant;  and  if  they  don’t  waste  it  all,  it  will 
snoil  my  grandchildren.  My  only  real  hap¬ 
piness  is  found  in  the  love  of  my  few  real 
friends:  anp  this  w°s  not  bought  with  gold. 

I  do  believe  Elsie’s  kittie  gave  her  more  hap¬ 
piness  than  the  gold  gave  me. 

EDNA: — It  looks  as  if  the  wishing-stone 
were  a.  failure,  doesn’t  it? 

ALICE: — It  was  a  failure;  but  mightn’t 
it  have  been  a  success  if  we  had  wished  dif¬ 
ferently? 


ELLEN: — I  wonder. 

LIZZIE: — Why,  what  was  it  that  the  fairy 
Godmother  said  at  the  time? 

“Ycu  who  to  happiness  aspire, 

Must  start  your  lives  with  right  desire.” 
SUSIE: — What  a  pity  that  we  did  not  all 
take  heed! 

ALL:  —  (Singing) 

Our  hearts  are  cold  and  sad  and  weary, 
We’re  old,  and  our  lives  are  very  dreary. 
We  did  no  good  in  the  sunny  past. 

The  joys  we  chose,  they  did  not  last, 

They  did  not  last! 

And  our  lives  are  sad  and  weary. 

And  our  lives  are  very  dreary! 

(Curtain.) 

ACT  III 

THREE  GOOD  WISHES. 

(Children  asleep,  as  at  the  end  of  Act  1. 
Enter  Mother.) 

MOTHER: — Why,  children,  are  you  all 
asleep?  Wake  up,  Ellen.  For  shame — to  let 
your  little  guests  have  such  a  dull  time  that 
they  all  fall  asleep!  Couldn’t  you  think  of  a 
nice  game? 

(Children  sit  up  and  rub  their  eyes.) 

RUTH: — It  wasn’t  that,  Mrs.  Mason,  but 
Elsie  was  making  believe  that  her  pussy  was 
purring,  and  it  made  us  all  sleepy. 

Children  rise.) 

ELLEN: — And  I  dreamed  the  queerest 
dream,  mother !  I  dreamed  that  we  were  all 
old,  old  women. 

CHILDREN:— Why,  so  did  I! 

MOTHER:— Strange — that  you  all  dream¬ 
ed  the  same  thing! 

ELLEN: — And  I  dreamed  that  none  of  the 
thinvs  we  wished  for  made  us  happy. 
MOTHER: — That  is  not  so  strange. 
ELLEN: — Why,  mother,  didn’t  you  think 
those  things  are  good  to  have? 

MOTHER:— I  knew  they  wouldn’t  last, 
and  I  doubted  if  they  would  make  you  hap¬ 
py. 

ELLEN: — What  things  do  last,  Mother? 
MOTHER:  —  Why,  such  things  as — 
FAIRY:-—  IBehind  the  curtain) 

Love  that  is  merciful,  hearts  that  are  pure, 
Joyful  self-giving  shall  ever  endure; 

Service  and  worship  in  spirit  and  truth — 
The®--'  a’-e  the  blessings  for  age  and  for 
youth. 

CHILDREN: — What  was  that? 

LIZZIE: — Oh.  I  th’’nk  it  was  a  fairy!  I 
wish  she  would  sing  it  ae-am  so  we* could 
learn  it!  (Song  repeated  twice.  The  second 
time  the  children  join  in.) 

ELLEN: — If  that  is  true,  our  first  wishes 
weren’t  any  good.  Here  is  the  stone,  girls. 

Let  s  wish  things  back  as  they  were,  so  we 
can  begin  over  again. 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


(The  girls  form  a  circle  and  march  around 
Ellen,  each  touching  the  stone  as  they  pass, 
and  all  singine: — ) 

ALL:  — 

Silks  and  satins  and  jewels  and  gold, 
Pussies  and  parties  and  wealth  untold, 
Pomps  and  vanities,  empty  fame, 

We  wish  you  out  of  our  wishing-game. 

ELLEN: — There,  girls!  Now  let  us  make 
a  good,  worth-while  wish,  all  together. 
What  shall  it  be? 

LIZZIE: — Why  not  make  the  fairy  song  in¬ 
to  a  wish? 

Love  that  is  merciful,  hearts  that  are  pure, 
Joyful  self-giving  shall  ever  endure. 

Service  and  worship  in  spirit  and  truth — 
We  wish  for  these  blessings  in  age  and 

in  youth. 

(All  march  around,  singing  it,  and  each 
touches  the  stcne.) 

ALICE: — I  like  to  wish.  Let’s  wish  some 
more  things.  (Alice  sings  any  child’s  hymn, 
in  form  of  a  prayer.)  . 

SUSIE: — I’ve  thought  of  a  wish,  too: 

If  anyone  in  sadness  be 

And  need  a  smile,  dear  Lord,  send  me. 

If  any  be  in  want  or  need. 

Send  me  to  give  them  help  indeed. 

If  any  seek  the  Father’s  face, 

Send  me  to  help  them  with  Thy  grace. 

If  anybody  know  not  Thee, 

At  home  or  over  land  and  sea, 

Send  me,  dear  Lord,  send  me!  Send  me! 

CHILDREN:— Say  it  again! 

(Susie  repeats  it,  and  the  children  join  in 
the  l-.st  half  of  the  second  line,  and  the  whole 
of  the  4th,  6th  and  last  lines.) 

ELLEN: — Oh,  girls,  we  have  found  the 
right  wishes!  I  know  they  would  please  the 
fairy  Godmother.  But  I  feel  like  doing  some¬ 
thing  to  help  make  them  come  true — don’t 
you? 

EDNA: — Well,  we  can  all  try,  and  then  we 
can  talk  about  it  again  when  we  meet  at  my 
party. 

(ALL  SING:) 

Bright  little  sunbeams,  Lord,  let  us  be, 
Shining  afar  o’er  land  and  sea; 
Shedding  our  light  about  us,  so 
It  shall  be  brighter  where  we  go. 

Far  in  the  land  of  darkest  night, 

May  our  livnt  make  it  bright, 

Leading  Thy  children  all  to  see 
And  to  follow  Thee. 

(Curtain) 

ACT  IV. 

Scene  1. 

THE  CALL. 

(Children  assembled  at  Edna’s  party,  play¬ 
ing  a  game.  Enter  Ruth  and  Alice,  with 

older  sisters). 


EDNA: — How  do  you  do,  girls?  I’m  glad  to 
see  you. 

RUTH: — Alice  and  I  brought  our  big  sis¬ 
ters,  Edna.  Do  you  know  them?  This  is  Rose, 
and  this  is  Lou'se. 

ALICE: — And  this  is  my  sister  Esther. 

EDNA: — I  am  glad  to  see  you  all. 

ESTHER: — Mother  thought  that  perhaps 
we  could  help  with  the  serving,  you  are  giv¬ 
ing  such  a  large  party. 

EDNA: — Yes,  indeed!  Mother  will  be  glad 
to  have  your  help. 

RUTH:- — I’m  sorry  we  are  so  late.  What 
have  you  been  playing? 

SUSIE: — Drop  the  handkerchief.  Come  on, 
let’s  play  it  again. 

ELLEN: — Oh,  let’s  not  play  just  now.  Let’s 
talk  about  how  to  make  our  wishes  come 
true. 

(All  sit  down.) 

ALICE: — Oh,  let’s!  I  haven’t  thought  of  a 
single  thing  to  do  except  smile.  I  smile  and 
smile  and  smile  and  smile,  until  I’m  smiling 
all- the  while.  Do  tell  me  something  else  that 
I  can  do. 

EDNA:— Of  course  we  all  help  our  moth¬ 
ers  and  try  to  be  kind  to  our  friends;  but 
mere  seems  to  be  nothing  that  we  can  do  for 
our  neighbors  farther  away — nothing  that 
would  really  make  much  difference. 

RUTH: — Girls,  I’ve  thought  of  something! 
We  made  our  wishes  all  together.  Now,  why 
can’t  we  undertake  some  worth-while  thing 
and  do  it  all  together?  Then  we  could  do 
something  big  enough  to  matter. 

OTHERS:— Good!  What  shall  we  do? 

ELLEN: — That’s  just  it.  If  we  could  only 
think! 

(Enter  Fairy  Godmother.) 

F.  G.: — The  wish  is  father  of  the  thought, 

The  thought  is  mother  of  the  deed. 
Now  look  and  listen  as  you  ought. 

Take  heed!  Take  heed!  Take  heed! 

(Waves  wand.  Curtain.) 

SCENE  2. 

(Children  still  sitting  in  the  back-ground.  F. 

G.  standing  near.  Trained  nurse  standing. 

Enter  Chinese  girl.) 

CHINESE  GIRL:  — 

My  dear  little  brother  is  very  sick, — 

It  is  this  I  have  come  to  tell. 

We  took  him  off  to  the  wooden  god, 

But  he  could  not  make  him  well. 

If  we  bring  him  here  to  your  hospital  bed, 

Will  you  drive  the  bad  spirit  away 
And  cure  his  sickness  and  ease  his  pain, 

And  make  him  well  some  day? 

NURSE:- — Alas,  dear  child,  it  is  hard  in¬ 
deed 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


To  refuse  the  thing  you  ask. 

To  care  for  the  sick  and  the  suffering 
Is  our  God-appointed  task; 

But  our  beds  are  full  and  oar  nurses  few, 
And  no  money  comes  for  more. 

We  cannot  take  more  patients  in — - 
We  must  turn  them  from  our  door. 

CHINESE  GIRL:—  (Weeping)  Poor  little 
brother!  (Exit.)  (F.  G.  waves  wand.  Curtain) 
SCENE  3. 

(Children  in  back-ground.  Missionary  dress¬ 
ed  as  deaconess,  sitting  by  a  table.  Enter 
one  or  more  little  slaves  from  Lidia.  Deacon¬ 
ess  rises  as  she  answers,  and  stands  near 
them.) 

SLAVE  GIRL:  — 

We’re  only  poor  little  run-away  slaves; 

But  our  master  beats  us  so 
That  we  cannot  stay  with  him  any  more, 
And  we  have  no  place  to  go. 

Is  there  room  for  us  in  your  orphanage. 
Dear  Missionary  friend.? 

Will  you  take  us  and  teach  us  what  you 
know, 

And  make  us  good  in  the  end? 

DEACONESS: — Our  orphanage,  dear  little 
girls, 

Is  full  as  it  can  be. 

There’s  not  a  corner  anywhere 
Where  we  can  shelter  thee. 

When  money  from  the  church  at  home 
Is  sent  across  the  sea, 

Then  we  can  build  and  make  nrore  room, 

And  you  shall  welcome  be. 

SLAVE  GIRLS: — -  (Weeping)  But  what 
shall  we  do  now? 

(Exit  slave  girls  F.  G.  waves  wand.  Curtain) 
SCENE  4. 

(Children  in  back-ground.  Missionary  teach¬ 
er  writing  at  a  table.  Enter  Japanese  girl, 
who  comes  close  to  the  teacher.  Teacher- 
puts  her  arm  around  her.) 

JAPANESE  GIRL:  — 

Dear  teacher,  you  made  me  a  Christian 
And  taught  me  how  I  must  live. 

I  have  learned  to  read  the  Bible  and  pray 
And  love  and  serve  and  give; 

But  my  father  and  mother  and  sisters  and 
brothers, 

And  all  of  my  friends  and  a  great  many 
others 

At  home  in  the  province  from  which  I  came. 
Do  none  of  them  trust  in  the  blessed 
Name. 

Dear  Teacher,  please  beg  our  good  Bishop 
to  send 

A  kind  missionary  to  be  their  friend, 


And  tell  them  the  truth  that  will  make  them 
glad, 

And  cheer  the  hearts  that  are  heavy  and 
sad. 

TEACHER:— 

Our  Bishop,  dear  child,  does  constantly  pray 
That  the  Board  of  Missions  may  see  a  way 
To  send  enough  money  and  send  enough 
men. 

He  will  have  them  in  every  province  then; 
But  the  people  at  home  in  my  native  land 
Are  slow  to  give — they  do  not  understand. 
And  so  the  Bishop  must  wait  and  wait 
And  pray  that  help  may  not  come  too  late 
To  save  the  souls  that  he  longs  to  win, 

And  gather  the  goodly  harvest  in. 

JAPANESE  GIRL: — (Weeping)  I  hope  it 
will  not  be  too  late  to  save  father  and  moth¬ 
er!  (Bows  her  head  on  the  teacher’s  shoul¬ 
der,  and  children  sing:) 

Hear  them  weeping,  Hear  them  sobbing. 

All  the  world  around; 

Hear  them  calling,  calling,  calling, — 

’Tis  a  doleful  sound — 

“Come  knd  heal  us,  come  and  teach  us, 
Come  and  set  us  free.” 

Night  and  morn  and  all  day  long 
I  hear  them  calling  me. 

(F.  G.  waves  wand.  Curtain.) 

SCENE  5. 

(Girls  seated  as  before,  without  thp  Fairy 
Godmother.) 

ALICE: — Girls,  I  can  never  be  happy 
again  unless  I  can  think  of  a  way  to  help 
those  poor  little  girls! 

RUTH: — Neither  can  I! 

LOUISE: — Wiiy,  girls,  why  can’t  you  have 
a  Junior  Auxiliary?  My  cousin  Agnes  be¬ 
longs  to  one  in  the  town  where  she  lives. 
I’ve  heard  her  talk  about  it,  but  I  neve” 
thought  much  about  it  before. 

ESTHER: — Yes,  they  have  one  in  Buffalo, 
where  I  used  to  live. 

LIZZIE: — -What  do  they  do? 

LOUISE: — Oh,  they  sew  for  a  missionary 
box,  and  give  money  for  missions;  and 
sometimes  they  have  a  sale  or  a  play  to  earn 
money. 

RUTH: — Oh,  let’s  do  it!  We  could  send 
some  of  our  money  to  help  those  poor  little 
girls ! 

CHILDREN:— Oh,  let’s! 

ALICE: — Yes,  let’s  start  it  right  away.  Our 
Sunday  School  teacher  w-ill  help  us.  Then  if 
the  fairy  Godmother  comes  lo  ray  party  next 
spring  we  can  tell  her  what  we  have  done. 
CHILDREN: — Bo  we  can! 

ROSE: — And  we  older  girls  will  find  a 
way  to  help,  too. 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


LIZZIE: — Oh,  I’m  so  glad  our  wishes  are 
going  to  come  true! 

OTHERS:— So  am  I! 

ELSIE: — Isn't  it  time  now  for  the  ice 
cream  and  cake? 

EDNA: — Yes,  Mother  says  we’re  to  come 
into  the  dining  room  now. 

ELSIE: — Oh,  goody! 

(Exit  ail.  Curtain.) 

ACT  V. 

THE  FAIRY  GODMOTHER’S  WISH. 

(Children  assembled  at  Alice’s  party,  play¬ 
ing  “Ring  around  the  rosy,"  or  some  other 

game.  Enter  Miss  Grace.) 

MISS  GRACE: — How  do  you  do,  children? 

LIZZIE,  SUSIE  AND  EDNA:— Oh,  here  is 
Miss  Grace! 

(All  flock  around  her.) 

ALICE: — I’m  glad  you  have  come,  Miss 
Grace. 

RUTH,  ELLEN  AND  SUSIE : — Oh,  Miss 
Grace,  we’re  so  glad  you  have  come! 

ALICE: — Do  you  think  the  fairy  God¬ 
mother  will  come,  Miss  Grace? 

MISS  GRACE: — Yes,  indeed,  I’m  sure  she 
will ! 

LIZZIE: — What  makes  you  sure,  Miss 
Grace? 

MISS  G. : — I  know  she  could  not  resist  the 
wishes  of  such  earnest  little  workers  as  you! 

RUTH:- — Shall  we  tell  her  what  we  have 
done,  Miss  Grace,  or  would  it  be  boasting? 

MISS  G.: — Tell  her  all  about  it.  It  will  not 
be  boasting,  because  it  is  her  work  as  well 
as  yours.  She  gave  you  the  wishing-stone, 
you  know. 

ELLEN: — Of  course!  We  mustn’t  forget 
that  it  was  the  wishing-stone  that  made  our 
wishes  all  come  true.  I  wish  she  would  hur¬ 
ry  and  come. 

(Enter  F.  G.) 

SUSIE:- — Why,  here  is  your  wish  come 
true,  and  you  didn’t  touch  the  wishing-stone! 

F.  G. : — Wishes  get  a  habit  of  coming  true, 
little  girl,  when  you  have  wished  three  good 
wishes  with  the  wishing-stone. 

ELLEN: — Oh,  dear  Godmother,  we  do  love 
you  so  for  your  beautiful  gift!  It  has  made 
us  all  so  happy! 

F.  G.: — H’m!  It  has,  has  it?  It  didn’t  make 
you  very  happy  after  your  first  foolish  wish¬ 
es,  did  it? 

RUTH:- — No,  but  that  was  our  own  fault. 

F.  G.: — Then  the  wishing-stone  alone 
didn’t  make  you  happy? 

EDNA: — Oh,  of  course  we  had  to  use  it 
wisely. 


ALICE: — And  we  had  to  have  Miss  Grace 
to  show  us  how. 

F.  G.: — Who’s  Miss  Grace? 

ALICE: — Excuse  me,  Godmother!  This  is 
Miss  Grace,  our  Sunday  School  teacher,  who 
helped  us  start  our  Junior  Branch.  Miss 
Grace  taught  us  all  we  know  about  our  sis¬ 
ters  far  away,  and  showed  us  how  to  do  ev¬ 
erything  that  we  did. 

F.  G.: — You're  lucky  girls  to  have  her.  I 
might  have  a  Junior  Branch  in  every  parish, 
if  every  parish  only  had  a  Miss  Grace. 

SUSIE: — See.  Miss  Grace,  the  fairy  God¬ 
mother  likes  you! 

F.  G. : — Now,  Children,  what  have  you 
done  beside  learn  about  your  sisters  far 
away? 

ELLEN:- — Well,  Godmother,  after  we  had 
learned  about  tnem,  we  felt  so  sorry  for 
them  that  we  prayed  the  good  Father  every 
day  that  He  would  send  them  help  and  com¬ 
fort,  and  that  Ho  would  let  us  help. 

F.  G. : — Good!  But  I  hope  you  didn’t  stop 
with  that. 

ALICE: — No,  indeed!  Miss  Grace  brought 
a  United  Offering  box,  and  we  put  pennies 
in  it  as  often  as  we  could,  as  a  thank-offer¬ 
ing  because  we  are  happy  Christian  girls. 

F.  G.:- — Good!  Anything  else? 

LIZZIE: — Yes,  we  made  some  clothes  for 
the  little  black  babies  down  South,  and  then 
we  dressed  dolls  for  the  Indian  girls’  Christ¬ 
mas  tree.  Oh,  it  was  such  fun! 

PUTH:- — Oh.  but  we  haven’t  told  you 
about  the  big  girls’  branch.  What  do  you  call 
it? 

FATHER: — The  Intermediates. 

RUTH: — Oh,  ;ves!  Intermediates.  Why  d<t 
you  call  it  Intermediates,  I  wonder? 

ESTHER: — Why,  there  were  the  Juniors, 
and  then  there  was  the  Woman’s  Auxiliari 
that  our  mothers  belong  to.  We  weren’t 
quite  old  enough  yet  to  do  what  our  mother! 
are  doing,  and  yet  we  were  older  than  our 
sisters.  So  we  started  a  branch  for  ourselv 
es. 

F.  G. : — Good!  How  we  are  growing! 

LTZZIE: — -Yes.  Godmother,  it  was  very 
good  for  us,  they  helped  us  so  much  with 
our  scholarships:  Let’s  tell  her  about  our 
scbclarships,  girls. 

ALL:  — 

We  .Juniors  have  some  scholarships 

That  we  ourselves  support. 

You’ll  find  them  in  our  History 

And  in  each  year’s  report; 

Buf  iust  to  fix  them  in  the  mind 

We’ve  put  them  into  rhyme, 

So  we  can  learn  them  all  by  heart 

And  say  them  any  time. 


THE  WISHING  STONE 


RUTH: — Let’s  let  the  Intermediates  tell 
what  they  are,  ihey  understand  so  much  bet- 
ter. 

ESTHER: — The  Sybil  Carter  Scholarship 
Began  in  Ninety-one. 

(To  honor  one  who  loved  the  work 
This  helpful  deed  was  done.) 

It  educates  a  bright  young  girl 
In  China,  far  away. 

At  Wuchang,  in  St.  Hilda’s  School, 

Where  pupils  have  to  pay. 

ROSE: — In  Ninety-five,  Miss  Mary  Hart, 

So  dear  to  you  and  me 
Because,  back  in  the  earjy  days, 

She  helped  our  branch  to  be, 

Was  honored  by  a  scholarship — 

St.  Agnes’  School,  Japan. 

When  needy  gills  would  go  to  school, 

We  help  them  all  we  can. 

ESTHER:— There  was  another  scholar¬ 
ship 

Proposed  that  very  day. 

We  loved  our  blessed  Bishop  Coxe 
Who  since  has  passed  away; 

And  so  we  send  an  Indian  School 
Some  money,  every  year. 

It’s  in  Shoshone,  Wyoming, 

That  we  have  this  work  so  dear. 

ROSE: — In  Nineteen-one  a  pledge  was 
made 

To  help  a  school  for  girls 
Who  live  far  off  in  Africa, 

With  jet-black  eyes  and  curls. 

“The  Helen  Halsey  Scholarship” 

.’Twas  named,  for  one  who  knew 
And  loved  our  own  dear  Junior  work, 

And  tried  to  help  it,  too. 

ESTHER: — And  then  there  is  the  scholar¬ 
ship 

Of  Miss  Amelia  Wright. 

She  helped  Miss  Hart  to  start  our  branch 
And  worked  with  all  her  might. 

In  Raleigh,  St.  Augustine’s  School, 

This  scholarship  we  find, 

Where  colored  pupils  go,  to  train 
The  body  and  the  mind. 

LOUISE: — And  last  of  all,  our  Treasurer 
For  twenty  busy  years, 

Whose  long  accounts  were  Quite  correct, 

As  on  the  book  appears, 

Was  shown  our  love  and  gratitude. 

Alaska,  far  away. 


The  Effie  Potter  Scholarship 
Will  bless  for  many  a  day. 

ALL: — So  this  is  how  we  try  to  help 
A  little  everywhere. 

We  give  to  every  place  we  can 
Our  money  and  a  prayer; 

And  every  day  we’re  learning  more 
Of  needs  that  we  can  meet, 

And  so  we’re  working  all  the  time, 

And  find  the  labor  sweet. 

F.  G.: — Girls,  you  have  made  me  very  hap¬ 
py.  Where  is  the  girl  who  said  the  wishing- 
stone  was  a  failure? 

ALICE: — Oh,  Godmother,  that  was  be¬ 
cause  we  didn’t  make  the  right  wishes! 

ROSE :- — I  know  a  woman  who  says  it’s  no 
use  wishing,  any  way.  She  says  “If  wishes 
were  horses,  beggars  might  ride.” 

F.  G. : — Does  she  touch  the  wishing-stone 
■when  she  wishes? 

ROSE: — Oh,  dear,  no!  She’s  much  too  old 
and  wise! 

F.  G.: — WThen  she  and  others  like  her 
have  learned  to  touch  the  wishing-stone,  the 
beggars  will  all  ride — or,  rather,  perhaps 
there  won’t  be  any  beggars.  Now,  girls,  I 
want  you  all  to  wish  one  more  wish  with  me, 
and  then  I  can  trust  you  to  go  on  working 
out  happiness  to  the  end  of  your  days;  but 
always  remember  to  take  heed  what  you 
wish,  and  never,  never  lose  the  wishing- 
stone. 

(All  sinq: — ) 

I  wish  that  everybody  in  the  big  wide  world 
Would  wish  with  the  wishing-stone; 

I  wish  that  everybody  had  a  big  wise  wish 
That  he  made  his  very  own; 

I  wish  that  all  together  we  could  wish  a  wish 
That  would  make  this  old  world  new — 

A  wish  for  the  East  and  a  wish  for  the  West 
And  a  wish  for  me  and  you. 

Then  no  child  should  suffer  hunger  for  the 
food  he  lacked. 

And  none  should  suffer  cold; 

Then  none  should  be  neglected  by  the 
church  at  home. 

Were  he  sick  or  young  or  old; 

But  the  world  should  be  so  busy  and  so  full 
of  light 

And  so  full  of  love  and  cheer. 

That  the  East  and  the  West  and  the  North, 
and  the  South 
Should  be  a  heaven  here. 

(Curtain.) 


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